Just art: Meeting 4. Rostan Tavasiev

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JUST ART
MEETING 4. ROSTAN TAVASIEV
Thursday, July 16, 2015, 19:30

Garage LAB
Free admission

 

Just Art is a series of discussions with artists moderated by renowned art critic and historian Andrey Kovalev.

 

Rostan Tavasiev’s medium of choice is simple soft toys produced in China. With this unpretentious material he creates his own world – complex compositions where happy, sad, sweet but somewhat creepy little rabbits, teddy bears and hippos fight for survival or world domination. In this discussion, Tavasiev will talk to Andrey Kovalev about the social, political, and ontological aspects of his universe, as well as the aesthetic of postmoosism and hippodian writing.

 

Rostan Tavasiev is a Russian artist whose work revolves around games and playing. A graduate of 332 Carl Fabergé Professional Lyceum of Arts and Crafts (Jewelry), he studied design at the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry from 2000, and completed the New Art Strategies course at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow in 2002. He has been represented by Aidan Gallery since 2004, and his works are in the collection of The State Tretyakov Gallery. In 2006 Tavasiev was shortlisted for the Innovation contemporary art prize.

 

  1. Rostan Tavasiev
    At Liberty
    2003
  2. Rostan Tavasiev
    Hiphopart
    2005 
  3. Rostan Tavasiev
    It’s Complicated
    2013
  4. Rostan Tavasiev
    Warm it up!
    2015
    Rostan Tavasiev
  5. Kaliningrad Bricks
    2005